Sentence examples for thing substance from inspiring English sources

In Ζ.17 Aristotle proposes a new point of departure in his effort to say what sort of a thing substance is.

Hick writes that the Real "cannot be said to be one thing or many, person or thing, substance or process, good or bad, purposive or non-purposive.

In Erkenntnislehre, he examines the categories of thing (substance), cause, necessity (legality), truth, reality, equality, and number (Stumpf 1939 1940, p. 13) and claims that these Grundbegriffe or categories have their origin in (internal and external) perception.

In this formulation, it is incorrect to say that a person or thing ("substance") has a fundamental identity that remains constant, and that any changes to the person or thing are secondary to what it is.

Human existence, then, cannot be thought through categories appropriate to things: substance, event, process.

And there are plans to build a facility combining a year-round, 30-bed shelter, a medical center and services including, among other things, substance-abuse counselling and computer access – astonishing for a place that seems so out-of-the-way.

We are now able to distinguish the enduring thing-substance, on the one side, from its variable manifestations from different points of view and on different occasions, on the other, and we thereby arrive at a new fundamental distinction between appearance and reality.

Existence is a determination that applies to things, substances, or living beings.

Group (c) corresponds to the category 'universal', for universals are said to inhere in things (substances, qualities and motions) but do not have anything inhering in them.

Thus, it is not the existence of things (substances), but only that of their state, about which we can cognize their necessity and, indeed, from other states that are given in perception, in accordance with empirical laws of causality".

But Malebranche's response is clear: even if we bracket the worry of whether we could have a sufficiently clear idea of what kind of thing this substance would be, it is unlikely that this substance would be a Cartesian extended substance.